Category: Research Support

It’s a Happy 10th Birthday for the NOVA Open Access Repository. During OA Week 2017 we are also celebrating 10 years since the launch of the NOVA repository in 2007.

A huge thank you to Dave Huthnance from the ARCs Team in IT Services who has maintained the system and software for the NOVA open access repository for the previous ten years. The Library appreciates and acknowledges Dave’s specialist knowledge, expertise and support. And that of the Ops Teams.

30,000 reasons to celebrateDuring October, NOVA also achieved another milestone and has now published over 30,000 metadata records for UON research publications and outputs. Approximately 32% of the repository’s published records also contain full-text publications available on open access.

Calling all UON AuthorsYou are invited to archive your publications into the UON institutional open access repository. The NOVA Team are waiting to help you. Email nova@newcastle.edu.au or contact your Senior Research Librarian for more information.

To promote Open Access week the Library is offering UON staff and HDR students a free coffee. Submit a full text copy of your peer-reviewed manuscript (Final Accepted Version) to NOVA Open Access repository before midnight on 29th October 2017 and we will send you a coffee voucher.

2. Deposit for the ARC and NHMRC Open Access Policy requirements

Open Access Week also provides the opportunity to highlight how the Library can assist authors to meet the requirements of the ARC and the NHMRC Open Access Policies. The ARC and NHMRC require that metadata about your publication must be deposited into an institutional open access repository within three months of publication and the publication made available via open access within twelve months from the date of publication, wherever possible. The Library can help.

3. Register for an ORCID

ORCID is an Open Researcher and Contributor ID providing researchers with a unique identifier and enabling you to distinguish yourself and your research activity. Use of ORCID by researchers has increased significantly around the world and particularly within publication and publisher workflows. Register for an ORCID via the NURO publications system.

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Congratulations to our Higher Degree Research students who had their thesis published in NOVA during July. All of these theses are available as full text and cover a variety of topics, from the representation of Islam in Australian newspapers, to customer satisfaction with sommelier services. Congratulations to all on the completion of their thesis!

“‘The results of this study suggest that individuals with higher levels of either mindfulness or self-compassion are less likely to report depressive symptoms in general, and that both groups are less likely report such symptoms as a result of negative life events. However, the current findings also suggest that the moderating effects of mindfulness occur via self-compassion. It appears that having high levels of both self-compassion and mindfulness is no more effective as a buffer against negative life events than being high in self-compassion alone. These findings suggest that self-compassion may be particularly useful as a resilience-building strategy because it creates a buffer against negative life events”.

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

“This original research contributes valuable insights and new knowledge about how representations of Islam and Muslims in news media discourses may influence community perceptions of Islam and Muslims, and subsequently have real world effects in respect of proposed Islamic property developments in specific locations.”

“This thesis will assess the evidence for Judas’ betrayal of Jesus. It has three main original contributions to knowledge and presents sufficient evidence to show that Judas is a traitor and a blasphemer who has all the essential literary features of an idol.”

“The aim of this thesis is to provide a deeper perception and understanding of the place of education and teaching that was at work in the early church and its role in the development of the leadership in the early church.”

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

“Wine consumption in Hong Kong largely increased after the abolishment of the wine tax in 2008. This scenario resulted in a high demand for wine professions and sommeliers. Studies on the role and responsibility of sommeliers are mostly focused on Western restaurants. The service quality of sommeliers in Chinese restaurants should be explored because Chinese food is a major part of the diet in Hong Kong. This research investigates the relationship between the service quality of sommeliers and customer satisfaction, and loyalty in Chinese restaurants in Hong Kong.”

“This paper examines how the transformational leadership style influences the occurrence of organizational learning in a Japan based electronics firm in Hong Kong. The main focus of this study is to investigate the relationship between transformational leadership of middle managers and their influence on the employees in terms of knowledge sharing.”

“This research is dedicated to examine that the use of influence strategies would be affected by interdependence and moderated by environmental uncertainty in the supplier-buyer relationship in Hong Kong electronics industry. This research provides both theoretical and managerial insights into the applicability of influence strategies and managers need to understand the effective use of influence strategies under different interdependent relationships and uncertain environment to make appropriate decisions.”

“Hong Kong regulatory authority has put in considerable effort to increase directors’ accountability due to recent scandals in Asia. As a result, Hong Kong regulatory authority revised the Listing Rule to enhance corporate governance by increasing the number of Independent Non-Executive Directors (INEDs) on the board of directors and also revised the code of conduct and accountability of INEDs.”

“From a managerial perspective, the research highlights the importance of understanding the possible tradeoff between relational and transactional strategies, assisting managers in making more informed decisions regarding the development of more consistent and effective RMO strategies, less vulnerable to the influence by competitive pressure on price/cost.”

Calling all Alumni

If you’re interested in publishing your UON theses in NOVA please contact our repository team. We’d love to tell you more about open access and help you get your thesis online.

Drones in research: Rise of drones in Australian research space

Kim Bryceson (QUT)Automation of drone data capture in agriculture and development of GIS data library

Tim Brown (ANU).From pixels to point clouds – Using drones, game engines and virtual reality to model and map the National Arboretum in Canberra

Register to attend : The webinar is facilitated by the Australian National Data Service(ANDS) and you’ll need to register.

The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) provide access to all the recordings and slides of recent webinars which are now available now. You can access all the presentation materials from the ANDS Presentations page. Or you can click this link for the Drones in research series to access all the materials that are specific to this series.

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Make your Author IDs work for you. Harness the power of Author Identifiers to Maximise Your Research Impact

Author IDs are a good way to help make sure your work is being credited to you. Having and using Author IDs makes it easier for your research to be correctly attributed to you and any associated metrics such as citations are recorded for you. Three Author IDs that can help to maximise your impact and visibility are ScopusId and ResearcherID, and ORCID.

Scopus Author ID (Elsevier)

Where is it used? For articles indexed in Scopus

How do I get one? You’re automatically assigned a Scopus Author ID when your work is indexed by Scopus.

Using your Author IDs can save you time!

Here are two things that you can do to save time.

Add your identifiers into the NURO publications system to link your identifiers with your publications within NURO. This will save you time in the future because your publications are automatically and instantly claimed on your behalf. Linking more than one ID in NURO helps with more comprehensive matching of your publications. For example, Scopus and Web of Science provide coverage of literature across different disciplines. Utilising multiple Author IDs provides an efficient method to showcase your research.

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Don’t have an ORCID? Now’s the time to join the 3.5 million researchers around the world who do!

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) is all about you and here’s why you should create one today:

1. You’re unique! You can uniquely identify yourself to make sure you get credit for all of your work. What’s in a name? Having an ORCID helps to distinguish your work from other researchers with the same or a similar name.

3. Save me time! Publishers and funding agencies are increasingly asking researchers for their ORCID as part of manuscript submission for publishing and for grant applications. Having an ORCID will save you time, enter once and re-use often.